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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLight, Alison
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245 1 0 _aAlison Light – Inside History :
_bFrom Popular Fiction to Life-Writing /
_cAlison Light.
264 1 _aEdinburgh :
_bEdinburgh University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (244 p.)
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490 0 _aThe Feminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tSeries Editors’ Preface --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tIntroduction: Reading Oneself Backwards --
_tPART I FROM FICTION TO NATION --
_t1 ‘Returning to Manderley’: Romance Fiction, Female Sexuality and Class --
_t2 Fear of the Happy Ending: The Color Purple, Reading and Racism --
_t3 Young Bess: Historical Novels and Growing Up --
_t4 Outside History? Stevie Smith, Women Poets and the National Voice --
_tPART II SHORT CUTS --
_t5 The Vampire and the Dog: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest --
_t6 Women Writers and Conservative Sensibilities --
_t7 Against Empathy --
_t8 The Mighty Mongrel: on Biography --
_t9 Hitchcock’s Rebecca: A Woman’s Film? --
_t10 Re-reading Great Expectations --
_t11 The Figure of the Servant --
_t12 Experiments in Memoir-writing --
_tPART III WRITING LIVES --
_t13 A Woolf in Dog’s Clothing: Flush --
_t14 Fascism, Fear and Feminism: Virginia Woolf ’s Three Guineas --
_t15 Addicted to Diaries: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt --
_t16 Writing the Lives of ‘Common People’: Reflections on the Idea of Obscurity --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aA collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light’s workProvides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readersOffers a way into a variety of texts and genres – including popular fiction, drama, film - as well as single authors, united by a lively and readable feminist approachExtends current thinking on national identity and Englishness from a writer who helped open these fieldsSpeaks to the new and growing academic interest in ‘life-writing’Includes shorter pieces which also encapsulate complex arguments as well as examples of original life-writing by the authorIncludes an autobiographical introduction which contextualises and historicises the author’s work and reflects on itAlison Light – Inside History addresses a number of the central preoccupations within feminist cultural criticism over this period: the nature of writing by women and what women writers might or might not share; the place of such writing in any literary history or cultural analysis; the politics of popular culture and the question of pleasure; women’s relation to ideas of national identity and other forms of belonging; and finally, their contribution to life-writing in its different genres. The volume offers a lively, wide-ranging way into feminist debates, touching on a number of major authors from Alice Walker to Virginia Woolf, on genre fiction, and on the writing of memoir and biography. Chronologically arranged, the essays and short ‘think-pieces’ chart Alison Light’s own intellectual formation as a critic and writer within a wider collective politics. This is explored and contextualised in an autobiographical introduction.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aFeminist literary criticism.
650 0 _aFeminist theory.
650 0 _aWomen authors
_xHistory.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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